AARP New Hampshire

The following information is being reprinted -- with permission -- from New Hampshire Union Leader’s Senior News column (August 11, 2014).

If you’re like most women, you’re a master planner. You plan your career, your wedding, your children’s education and social activities, your family vacations and holidays. Orchestrating so many life events for others can leave you with little time for yourself. However, planning for your own tomorrow is vitally important. If you don’t plan for yourself, someone else will plan for you.

The Way to Well Health Tour – which travels the country delivering free health tests, education and consultations to adults 18 and over – is coming to Manchester and Nashua! The preventive and early detection health services offered through the tour provide a baseline status of visitors' overall health.

The United Hospital Fund and AARP Public Policy Institute issued a report with compelling new evidence that family caregivers who provide complex chronic care to people who also have cognitive and behavioral health conditions face particularly demanding challenges, including high levels of self-reported depression. As a result, a majority of them (61 percent) reported feeling stress “sometimes to always,” between their caregiving responsibilities and trying to meet other work or family obligations.

In celebration of the 79 th anniversary of the creation of Social Security, AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond issued the following statement:

It’s AARP’s inaugural craft beer day on Saturday, August 16 at two local breweries: Milly’s Tavern in Manchester and White Birch Brewing in Hooksett.

Summer in Manchester would not be the same without the TD Bank Free Summer Concert Series at Veterans Park. These free outdoor concerts are centered on family-friendly music and activities for people of all ages!

Would you like to learn smart money habits? You’re not alone! Over 20 million people 50+ are overwhelmed by mounting debt, poor credit, and/or lack of savings. Take the first step and learn to better manage your money with AARP Foundation Finances 50+℠ workshops -- July 16, 23 and 30 – at UNH Manchester.

Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas greeted the 150 AARP members that came to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on June 24 for AARP’s first-ever SCAM JAM. Participants left with more in-depth knowledge of the tactics con artists use; identity theft; credit and debit card fraud; imposter scams; and investment scams.

It’s a summertime treat: a pre-release screening of And So It Goes, starring Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton. The movie starts at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, July 9 at the Cinemagic & Imax in Hooksett. Tickets are limited so reserve your seats today.